070 Resignation v Acceptance

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How much of your life have you resigned yourself to?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It looks like thinking, that’s just the way my partner is.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s just how they do things at work.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s just how my kid is.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s just how the world is. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How do you know if you’re resigned to something?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By the way you feel. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ve stopped resisting or trying to make the situation different but you still don’t like it. You’re not happy about it and in a way, you feel a bit powerless.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It feels like a bad taste in your mouth. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Acceptance on the other hand is when we allow the situation to be what it is (and often it’s a situation we’re not so keen about), and we don’t try to change it or protest it. We let it be what it is.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But there’s one more important facet that plays a bigger role than you’d expect in terms of being able to accept something rather than be resigned to it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen to find out. </span></p>